Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces to Conduct Over 100 Drills in 2015

MOSCOW, January 11 (Sputnik) — The Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) of Russia are planning to conduct over 100 drills at various levels in 2015, SMF spokesperson Col. Igor Yegorov said Sunday.

“In 2015, SMF will conduct over 100 command and staff, tactical and specialized drills. The drills will be conducted in complex and tense conditions,” Yegorov told the press.

The spokesperson added that the purpose of the planned exercises is to improve the performance of troops’ field training by increasing the duration of the drills. In addition, requirements for skills of all categories of servicemen will be increased.

Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces are the arm of the country’s Armed Forces and the main component of it’s strategic nuclear forces. Their main goals include nuclear deterrence of a possible aggression and the defeat of possible enemy’s strategic objects of military and economic potential by means of nuclear missile attacks.

In late December, Russia’s Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov cited the strengthening of the country’s nuclear triad as the Armed Forces’ main task for 2015.